Thread: Top 10 Fastest Bikes 2010

Does that dodge tomahawk even qualify as a bike? It seems to have 4 wheels.

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ha ha found that same video on the UK Motorcycle News site Video speed test: S1000RR v RSV4 v Hayabusa v ZZ-R1400 - | Motorbike reviews | Latest Bike Videos | MCN. I think these results can be relied upon . . . easy to have stories of 200mph plus - - see my next post from a USA article on how difficult 200mph really is.

May 2010.
MCN pitted the S1000 RR and the Aprilia RSV4R against the Suzuki Hayabusa and the Kawasaki ZZR 1400.

The tests were conducted at Bruntingthorpe airfield where they have a 2 and a bit mile runway (its an ex RAF bomber base).

The results:

Fastest production bike
BMW 187.47
Kawasaki 184.12
Suzuki 183.43
Aprilia 175.89

0 to 60
Suzuki 2.89 secs
Kawasaki 2.94
BMW 3.09
Aprilia 3.21

Standing 1/4 mile
Suzuki 10.14
Kawasaki 10.17
BMW 10.51
Aprilia 10.78

0 to 150mph
BMW 10.59
Suzuki 11.06
Kawasaki 11.53
Aprilia 13.08

This article is from 2009, from USA Super Streetbike Magazine - not easy to go over 200mph in the real world. And the impact of a bigger rider - 260 for a small racer, 233 for a 6'5" rider on the same bike. And these bikes are turbo or nitrous-assisted.

some edits (full article here:Top Speed Shootout - Super Streetbike Magazine

The quest for our inaugural Super Streetbike Top Speed Shootout was a simple one-to find the fastest streetbikes in America, as measured in top speed achieved on a standing-start, one-mile racecourse.

Hang around our online message board (or e-mail in-box) for any length of time, and you'll swear that every liter bike rider hits 200 mph on the way to work each morning ...

Having built and ridden more than our fair share of big-speed sportbikes, we knew that hitting 200 mph in the real world was much more difficult than just bolting on some parts and producing a big number on the dyno.

In the end, a grand total of 38 streetbikes came from as far away as California and Canada to compete for one of the prestigious "Fastest Streetbike in America" prize jackets provided by Joe Rocket for the class winners of this contest. At times the event looked more like a rally of the Turbo Hayabusa Owners of America, as by far the most popular machine there was some variation of that bike. Balancing out all the 'Busas were a few Big Kaws (three brandy-new ZX14s and a smattering of ZX-12Rs, too) along with a bunch of GSX-R1000s, a couple of R1s, a straight-nasty naked Yamaha V-Max, some motards and more.

In the months leading up to our event, the chatter on various performance-oriented Web pages was unstoppable. Working off of dyno numbers and gearing charts alone, it seemed like every turbo 'Busa owner in the world thought he could come down and click off 220-plus mph passes at Maxton all day long. But, as seasoned land-speed veterans are fond of saying, "It's easy to go 200 mph-at home!"

On the brutal and unforgiving Maxton Monster Mile, big speed isn't so easy to achieve. At the end of the two-day event, just two of those 38 bikes managed to break the 220 mph barrier (ECTA veteran Rich Yancy and stand-out privateer Chris Bletsas), and there were as many blown-up bikes being loaded into trailers as there were riders who broke 200 mph.

Even with all the high-horsepower bikes on tap, when we got done and crunched the numbers, only 17 of the 38 riders there made a pass over 200 mph. Looking at the total number of motorcycle passes made that weekend (294 runs), only 22 percent of them were over 200 mph, with the average motorcycle speed at the event coming in at 173.2 mph. (And, remember, these were nearly all liter or liter-plus displacement bikes!) Going 200 mph is not easy, as many of the entrants discovered. Even with huge-horsepower bikes and a moderate level of riding talent, there is much more to breaking the double ton than just tucking in and banging on the shift lever for a mile.

Rich Yancy topping that list with his remarkable 233.936 mph pass that locked up the "Fastest Streetbike in America" title. Riding his stock-wheelbase, turbocharged, Dale Earnhardt Jr.-themed Hayabusa. Yancy's bike is the all-time ultimate speed record holder at Maxton, having gone 260.288 mph at an ECTA event last year with the diminutive Lee Shierts in the saddle. Yancy, who stands a towering 6 feet 5 inches tall and outweighs Shierts by a few dozen pounds, too, has a harder time hiding from the wind compared to Shierts, which ultimately cost him nearly 30 mph but made for a much fairer contest.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ World's Fastest Streetbike at 272 MPH | Motorcycle News

World's Fastest Streetbike at 272 MPH

PutterPowerMedia
04/13/2010
Claiming the title of "World's Fastest Streetbike," Wild Bros Racing's Bill Warner rode into the record books at the East Coast Timing Association's Maxton Mile on April 11 with an astounding 272.340 mph pass in the standing mile.
In preparation for Maxton, Warner, 41, a tropical fish farmer and marine biologist from Tampa Bay, Florida, went to a Texas Mile event two weeks earlier, stripped the bodywork off his turbocharged, 1298cc Suzuki Hayabusa and made two 255 mph passes-the fastest unfaired, naked-bike runs ever recorded-at one point data logging a rear-wheel speed over 308 mph as the tire spun trying to harness more than 600 horsepower.
Setup dialed in, Warner and his team arrived at the all-concrete, one-mile course on a former air base in Maxton, North Carolina, planning his weekend record assault using the 253 mph MPS/BF-1650/4 class record as his target. Warner's third run on Saturday, a 257.604 mph pass, did the trick, but there was more to come. On Sunday, he posted a pair of 256 mph test runs in the morning with stock body panels before Shane Stubbs upped the ante, and the nearly five-year-old fastest-streetbike record previously held by Lee Shierts at 260.288 in the MPS/BF-3000/4 class, with a 264.375 mph blast.
"I was excited for him," says Wild Bill, "but Shane went a bunch faster than I expected him to go, so I reached in my bag of tricks." Warner pulled out three key ingredients to a better run: a leaner air-fuel mixture ("Because leaner is meaner in turbo racing," he insists), two pounds more turbo boost in top gear and a set of top-secret, custom bodywork.
"I figured that one of two things were gonna happen, either I would have to shut it down early or I'd put in a really good run," Warner continued. "You get really motivated in these situations. I stayed in the throttle and kept the bike straight up, charging forward." This little bit of inspiration is all he needed to post his 272.340 mph run-obliterating the class and track records, making this 'Busa the fastest vehicle ever run at Maxton.
Warner was so motivated and charging forward so quickly that he failed to get the bike slowed down in time for a corner halfway through Maxton's shut-down zone: "My timing was off because I was traveling so much faster, it caught me a little off guard. I went in at the wrong angle and hit the third traffic cone at 167 mph." This ripped off the front fender and damaged his hand-built bodywork, which took 300 man-hours to perfect, but didn't wipe the smile off his face.
Fellow land-speed-record-holder Paul Livingston was blown away by Warner's accomplishments: "I was shocked and excited to hear about Bill going 272 mph," says Livingston, "but what knocked us on our asses were the 255 mph naked runs. This makes him a hero-even among the hard-core land-speed guys."
Brock's Performance President Brock Davidson put a lot of homework into finding the right land-speed team to sponsor. "We can design, create and supply the greatest parts we know how to produce," he says, "but we have to provide them to people who know how to set up a motorcycle, do the proper testing, read the data and move forward intelligently. Bill's drive, determination and ability-on and off the bike-are the reasons we chose Wild Bros Racing. And he killed it."
In addition to supporting such land-speed efforts, Brock's Performance is reaching out to AMA Dragbike, MIROCK Superbike dragrace and WERA Motorcycle Roadracing series competitors with nearly $118,000 worth of contingency awards in 2010. Racers using various Brock's Performance exhaust systems and BST carbon-fiber wheels are eligible.
The record-setting bike, a first-generation Hayabusa, was set up with products and technical support from the following sponsors: BST, Brock's Performance, RCC Turbos, Garrett Turbo Technologies/Honeywell, Ward Performance, R & D Motorsports Inc., Ohlins USA, Pirelli Tires, MTC Engineering, Worldwide Bearings, Knecum Performance Engines, Web Cam Inc., McIntosh Machine and Fabrication, Aerospace Lubricants, Inc., Spiegler Performance Parts, Heads Up Performance, Falicon Crankshaft Components Inc., Millennium Technologies Inc., Power-Coat, Zip Sensors, Helmet House, Larry Forstall Racing, AiM Sports LLC SE and Crower Rods. For more information about these products and the bike setup.

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Originally Posted by bobo746

YouTube - EPIC BMW TABLE CLOTH WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

shouldn't this come with a 'don't try this at home' warning?

Here's the Vespa version

^ good effort

Wot a crock of shit that list is!! Hirebus 248mph "DOLLARE"

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BMW S1000RR gets 381bhp
By Adam Child - New bikes 07 January 2011 16:19

This is the world's first turbo-charged BMW S1000RR, revealed for the first time in MCN next week. Its rear wheel power has been increased from a pitiful 185bhp to a far more acceptable 381bhp.



The power is now over three times the output of a CBR600RR and 140bhp more than a MotoGP bike. It also makes more torque than a 1800cc Goldwing.

It's the first time BMW's all-conquering sportsbike has been given the turbo treatment successfully – the S1000RR's electronics are so complex that all previous attempts at such a massive modification have failed.

Read how Jack Frost, who runs Holeshot Racing, finally succeeded in next week's MCN, out Wednesday January 12. The dyno charts are worth a look too.

whatever happened to Bobo? top contributor to all things MotoGP?

I think he's trying to bail the water out of his house

Originally Posted by peterpan

I think he's trying to bail the water out of his house

Lots of Aussie tears will do that.